Source: Rangers' director of player development Jed Ortmeyer leaves team
Former Rangers player Jed Ortmeyer poses for a portrait at Madison Square Garden on Sep. 14, 2006. Ortmeyer later joined the Rangers front office in 2017. Credit: Getty Images
On his season-ending Zoom call with reporters on the Rangers’ breakup day last month, general manager Chris Drury declared, “the work for next season begins now.’’
The work is apparently beginning with a reshaping of the team’s hockey operations department. After nine years as the Rangers’ director of player development, Jed Ortmeyer has left the organization, an NHL source confirmed, in order “to pursue other opportunities.’’
Ortmeyer’s departure comes two weeks after the Rangers’ season ended on April 15, and three weeks after the team announced it had brought back Kevin Maxwell, who had previously worked with the organization for 14 seasons, to reprise his role as director of pro scouting, as well as sharing the title of director of player personnel with director of amateur scouting John Lilley.
Ortmeyer, 47, played for the Rangers from 2003-07, then played for Nashville, San Jose and Minnesota before finishing his playing career in the American Hockey League in 2014. Three years later he joined the Rangers’ front office, working under GM Jeff Gorton, and stayed with the organization, working under Drury after Gorton and team president John Davidson were fired in 2021.
Colin Stephenson covers the Rangers for Newsday. He has spent more than two decades covering the NHL and just about every sports team in the New York metropolitan area.
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